Niamh Smyth (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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I accept that. Let us just go back over the past eight months. Are you aware, do you know of or have you figures for the number of exit packages which the current director general and the former chair agreed to and approved, including a confidentiality clause? I know you are being told the same as I am being told, that it is the normal run of things, but these are not normal things where you and the Government are trying to bring maximum transparency. Is it really acceptable, in this current climate for RTÉ, to have this notion of confidentiality which effectively protects people? In this case it has arguably protected somebody who has wreaked havoc in the organisation and who had a huge price tag for RTÉ, if my information is correct with regard to the investigation of the actual complaint that was made against them. They were moved sideways, put into a new role - a role that did not exist before - and not only that, they exited after 18 months on a package. It is la-la land stuff.